Connie ’s Comments (group member since Nov 11, 2013)

Connie ’s comments from the Reading with Style group.

10.5 Inferno

Southernmost by Silas House

+10 task
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 15
Season total: 440

15.7 Listopia Tag

Personal History by Katharine Graham

#67 Memoirs by women list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: autobiography

+15 task
+ 5 not-a-novel
+ 5 big (642 pg)

Task total: 25
Season total: 425

10.8 K Big City, Small Country

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

YA Assignment, 970 Lexile, Set in New York City

+10 task
+15 combo 10.2, 10.9, 20.4

Task total: 25
Season total: 400

10.5 Inferno

Varina by Charles Frazier

+10 task
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 15
Season total: 375

Congratulations, Katy! Enjoy little Alaya.

20.4 The Piano Teacher

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

YA Assignment 870 Lexile

+20 task (debut)
+10 female author
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 35
Season total: 360

15.6 Listopia Tag

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Tag: multi-cultural

Task total: 15
Season total: 325

Amazing photo!

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Anyone know any books that are set in New Mexico? I need to read it for a different challenge."

Here's a couple more books set in New Mexico, Jayme:

The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

20.8 Summer Nights

A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières

+20 task
+10 combos 10.8K (London), 10.9

Task total: 30
Season total: 310

20.10 Art World

The Portrait by Iain Pears

Task total: 20
Season total: 280

10.5 Inferno

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

+10 task
+10 female authors
+ 5 jumbo
+ 5 multiple

Task total: 30
Season total: 260

20.4 The Piano Teacher

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

+20 task (debut)
+ 5 combo 10.7 (432 pg)
+10 female author

Task total: 35
Season total: 245

15.5 Listopia tag

Country Dark by Chris Offutt

# 153 2018 Mystery Thriller Horror https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
tag: thriller

Task total: 15
Season total: 210

10.2 July

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

+10 task
+10 female author
+10 combo 10.8 (New York City), 20.8 (older teen boy is the boyfriend of the main character, and then is very involved with her close friend; book set in 1970s)

Task total: 30
Season total: 195

10.10 Group Read

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

+10 task
+10 combo 10.9, 10.8K (Bangalore/Bengaluru #25 on list)

Task total: 20
Season total: 165

15.4 Listopia Tag

The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins

#560 Best Poetry Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

tag: poems

+15 task
+ 5 not a novel

Task total: 20
Season total: 145

15.3 Listopia tags

Sourdough by Robin Sloan

#49 San Francisco Bay Area Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

tag: bay area

Task total: 15
Season total: 125

itpdx wrote: "I have just finished Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Wow! This is the first book I have read by Berry. It is both regional and universal. I enjoyed it very much. He has..."

Yes, I've read three of his books and Jayber Crow was my favorite. The books bring us back to simpler times in a small town, but human nature always stays the same.

10.7 Not Quite Jumbo

Night of Sorrows by Frances Sherwood

+10 task (425 pages)
+10 female author

Task Total: 20
Season Total: 110